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Organized chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history and features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period.

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July 5, 2009
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Organized chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history and features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period.

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Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he teaches large lecture courses on ancient empires and Greek history. He is either the author or the editor of nine books on ancient history and archaeology, and directs a major archaeological excavation in Sicily. His latest book, Why the West Rules … For Now will appear in 2010. He has lectured at universities across America and Europe, and r appeared on television on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and A&E Channel.

Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where in his long career he was well known as a teacher of large lecture classes in ancient civilization and myth and for seminars on Homer. He has lectured in many countries and is the author of the bestselling Classical Myth (6^th edition, 2008), widely used in college courses. He is best known as the author of Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991), which argues that the Greek alphabet was invented in order to record the poems of Homer. With Ian Morris he published the internationally admired A New Companion to Homer (1997). The 2^nd edition of his popular introductory text Homer appeared in 2007, and he has written numerous other books, articles, screenplays, a novel, poetry, and a mock-epic The War at Troy: A True History (2006). He Recently, he appeared on the History Channel special Troy: The True Story (2005). His study Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (2008) establishes a scientific terminology for studying the history of writing.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0205697348
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 2nd edition (July 5, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780205697342
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0205697342
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.8 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches

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Barry B. Powell was born in Sacramento, CA, in 1942. He studied at Berkeley and Harvard and taught for 34 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Bascom-Halls Professor of Classics Emeritus. He is celebrated for his argument tying the creation of the Greek alphabet to the recording of the Homeric Poems, but is also well known for his textbooks on Greek myth and Greek history and his work on the history of writing. He has published translations of the ILIAD, the ODYSSEY, the AENEID, and the poems of HESIOD. He has published original poetry, many fictional works, including an academic mystery A LAND OF SLAVES, a memoir RAMSES REBORN, and the illustrated TALES OF THE TROJAN WAR.
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Ian Morris is an archaeologist and historian and teaches at Stanford University. Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1960, he now lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. He has won awards for his writing and teaching, and has directed archaeological digs in Greece and Italy. He has also published 15 books, which have been translated into 19 languages. His newest book, "Geography is Destiny" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Profile 2022), examines Britain's place in the world over the 10,000 years since rising waters began separating the Isles from the Continent--and asks where the story will go next. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society for the Arts.
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I liked it.

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Probably my favorite text book from my college experience so far. I enjoyed reading the required material and looking through it for references. If you like Greek culture/history and are a classics person... this is pretty good to be honest.

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This is an absolutely excellent textbook on the Ancient Greeks. One would be hard pressed to find a better, more thorough or enjoyable accounting of the Greeks under one cover. What really sets this book apart to me though is that it is rarely dry - history does not need to be so! and Morris & Powell render their history of the Greeks beautifully - their narrative is both compelling written and clear (a beautiful marriage indeed). The narrative is not simply the authors' voices either - the text is judiciously interspersed with primary texts of all types. So, in sum - this is a superb book that deserves to be on your shelf (read with enjoyment).

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Jack Donnellly

An intelligent and engaging textbook

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Textbooks have, deservedly, a bad reputation. Morris and Powell have written a textbook that is also a pleasure to read. This truly fine book covers the full range of material, but with style and flair. It is also well illustrated and makes very effective use of original source material. And their use of what they call "the Greek problem" -- how to organize social life "withough God or gods to reveal" a pattern -- is extremely effective. There are a number of good overview introductory books out there on the Greeks, but none better. The only drawback is a fairly hefty pricetag.

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I am happy with the book

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The book is in good used condition with many highlighted and pen underlined sections, but not a problem as it gives the book character.

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This seems a competent survey of The Ancient Greek period.The text had writing and some heavy highlighter marks in it when I received it for rental use. Quick delivery of a usable text.

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Its a pretty easy read to follow and understand

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Thorough and informative. Its a pretty easy read to follow and understand.

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Bought this cheap and was able to utilize it through the semester...

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Five Stars

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A very well written textbook that doesn't quite bore the reader.

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The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society

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This is a most interesting and informative, as well as entertainingly readable book which offers a history of the Greek people, but also their culture and society from the very earliest times to the coming of Rome in 30 BC. This is an invaluable book for anyone wanting to learn more, or study Greek history. The layout of the book is as follows:

Chapter 1: A Small, Far-off Land
Chapter 2: Country and People
Chapter 3: The Greeks at home
Chapter 4: The Greeks before history, 12,000-1200 BC
Chapter 5: The Dark Age, 1200-800 BC
Chapter 6: Homer
Chapter 7: Religion and Myth
Chapter 8: Archaic Greece, 800-480 BC: Economy, Society, Politics
Chapter 9: The Archaic Cultural Revolution, 700-480 BC
Chapter 10: A Tale of two Archaic cities: Sparta and Athens, 700-480 BC
Chapter 11: Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 BC
Chapter 12: The Great War, 480-479 BC
Chapter 13: Democracy and Empire: Athens and Syracuse, 479-431 BC
Chapter 14: Art and Thought in the Fifth Century BC
Chapter 15: Fifth-Century Drama
Chapter 16: The Peloponnesian War and its aftermath, 431-399 BC
Chapter 17: The Greeks between Persia and Carthage, 399-360 BC
Chapter 18: Greek Culture in the Fourth Century BC
Chapter 19: The Warlords of Macedon I: Philip II and Alexander the King
Chapter 20: The Warlords of Macedon II: Alexander the God
Chapter 21: The Greek Kingdoms in the Hellenistic Century, 323-220 BC
Chapter 22: The Greek Poleis in the Hellenistic Century, 323-220 BC
Chapter 23: Hellenestic Culture, 323-30 BC
Chapter 24: The Coming of Rome, 220-30 BC
Chapter 25: Conclusion

At well over 500 pages, this book offers a really comprehensive first view, or additional insight into areas of Greek social, cultural, political and military history. There are lots of diagrams and drawings, photographs and maps to supplement the chapters, each of which is well divided into subsections to allow for easy digestion of the information provided. Definitely recommended.

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Five Stars

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good book

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So boring

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The book arrived in great condition. The book is mindlessly boring, so I ended up not using it.

ijeoma

Its is actually an easy read.

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I really like this book and I found the book easy to read. Tells me all that I need to know about the Mediterranean and Greece.

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